Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Ghosn

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

Carlos Fuentes

At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.

Carlos Fuentes

The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.

Carlos Castaneda

Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit.

Carl Barks

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

Carl Bernstein

Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed.

C. S. Lewis

Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables.

C. S. Lewis

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.

Byron Katie

The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.

Catherine Ashton

Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.

Jane Wagner

Infinity: Time on an ego trip.

Alanis Morissette

The ego is a fascinating monster.

Alan Watts

The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

Alan Watts

The biggest ego trip going is getting rid of your ego

Alan Watts

To feel life is meaningless unless "I" can be permanent is like having desperately fallen in love with an inch.

Alan Watts

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

Agnes Repplier

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

Byron Katie

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.

Alan Moore

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.

Cheryl Strayed

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

Peter Andersen

The perception is that they take too long and are too expensive.

Bob Hall

The perception is that politics is for sale and politicians are for sale.

Michael Boyd

The perception is it's environmentalist versus environmentalist, ... But it's environmentalists versus the power cartel.

Richard Fleming

The perception in the marketplace has a tremendous impact.

Louis C. K.

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.